Images or Idols? the Place of Sacred Art in Churches Today

by Keith Walker

The purpose of this study is to engage the interest of artists and churchpeople alike. The Church and the visual arts have become estranged and both suffer because of the ignorance and hostility that fuel the estrangement. Clergy and Parochial Church Councils (and their equivalents in non-Anglican churches) need to consider the rightful place of the sacred visual artist within the Church much more searchingly than is usually the case at the moment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853111341
• ISBN13: 9781853111341
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Canterbury Press Norwich
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"